MPD: Midland man injures woman in drunken crash

Published 6:03 pm, Tuesday, January 21, 2014

A Midland man was arrested Saturday for injuring a woman in a drunken crash, according to court documents.

Timothy Robert Carter, 34, was being held Tuesday on a $50,000 bond for a third-degree felony charge of intoxication assault with a vehicle causing serious bodily injury.

A Midland police officer responded to a motor vehicle accident at about 6:30 p.m. Saturday in the 2900 block of West Wadley Avenue.

Carter was driving east at a high rate of speed on Wadley Avenue and struck another vehicle. Carter was believed to be intoxicated because he smelled strongly of alcohol at the time of the crash, according to the arrest affidavit.

Carter said he consumed a few alcoholic beverages before getting behind the wheel.

Both Carter and the woman driving the other car were transported to Midland Memorial Hospital. The woman suffered a fractured ankle, while Carter was cleared by medical staff.